Servers

Bare Metal Servers

Raw performance at your fingertips.

SoftLayer bare metal servers provide the raw horsepower you demand for your processor-intensive and disk I/O-intensive workloads. These servers come with the most complete package of standard features and services.

Configure your server to your exact specifications via our portal or API and deploy in real time to any SoftLayer data center—other cloud servers dream of this kind of speed, power, and flexibility.

Powerful

Choose from entry-level single proc servers to quad proc, hex-core, and even GPU-powered workhorses.

Build Your Bare Metal Server to Spec

The process of choosing and configuring a bare metal server might seem intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be.

1Choose a processor that best meets your performance needs.

2Upgrade standard config to fine tune the hardware to your workload.

3SoftLayer deploys your server as configured within 2 to 4 hours.

4Upgrade resources as needed, on demand, via our Web portal or API

If you have questions about configuring your bare metal server, chat with our team, and we’ll help guide you through the process of selecting a server and customizing it with hardware upgrades.

Hardware Upgrade Pricing

Hardware component upgrades are available on monthly bare metal servers. Hourly bare metal servers are built on fixed, pre-configured hardware to enable faster provisioning times, so hardware on hourly bare metal servers cannot be modified. Please note: Some server models do not support all hardware upgrades.

Local Disk Upgrades

Whether you’ve got a need for SSD speed or requirements for massive local disk volume, you have the option to add and upgrade the hard drives in your bare metal server.

SATA Hard Drives

SATA II hard drives include a 3.0Gb/s interface with 8MB of cache and rotation speed of 7,200RPMs, and use NCQ for enhanced performance. SATA III drives include a 6.0Gb/s interface with 64MB of cache. SATA drives are best suited for web, mail, or high-capacity storage servers.

Starting at

$21per month

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SATA Hard Drives
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500GB SATA II HDD

$21

1TB SATA II HDD

$42

2TB SATA II HDD

$60

3TB SATA II HDD

$80

4TB SATA III HDD

$100

Pricing is per month

SA-SCSI Hard Drives

SA-SCSI hard drives include a 3.0Gb/s interface with 16MB of cache and rotation speed of 10,000 or 15,000RPMs. SA-SCSI drives’ high-performance speed and reliability are best suited for game, database, streaming media, and mission-critical servers.

Hardware RAID Controller

Hardware RAID controllers provide the ability to create redundant drive arrays, providing protection against a possible drive failure. All RAID controllers are installed with a battery backup unit and with write caching enabled.

Starting at

$50per month

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Hardware RAID Controller
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SATA II RAID w/ BBU

$50

SA-SCSI RAID w/ BBU

$50

2U/4U RAID

$100

Pricing is per month

Additional RAM Upgrades

Your bare metal server will be provisioned with a generous amount of server-grade RAM. If you want to add RAM capacity, you can do so during initial deployment or at any time during the life of your server. The more RAM you add to your server, the better per-GB price you pay.

Starting at

$28per month

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Additional RAM Upgrades
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2GB

$28

4GB

$56

6GB

$80

8GB

$104

12GB

$144

16GB

$184

18GB

$200

20GB

$216

24GB

$248

32GB

$312

36GB

$336

48GB

$408

64GB

$504

72GB

$536

96GB

$632

128GB

$760

192GB

$888

256GB

$1,016

512GB

$1,272

Pricing is per month

Network Uplink Upgrades

Your bare metal server comes with 100Mbps public and private network uplinks, and you have the flexibility to upgrade or downgrade that connection based on your workloads.

Starting at

$20per month

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10Mbps Public & Private

$0

100Mbps Public & Private

$0

Dual 100Mpbs Public & Private (up to 200Mbps)

$20

1GBps Public & Private

$20

Dual 1Gbps Public & Private (up to 10Gbps)

$40

10Gbps Public & Private

$100

Pricing is per month

Redundant Power Supplies

Your critical systems require utmost redundancy. Add an additional safeguard to protect your high-value servers from service interruption in the event of a power supply failure.

Starting at

$50per month

Intel® Trusted Execution Technology

Add an additional layer of security with Intel® TXT, and build a solid foundation for a secure infrastructure. Available on specific bare metal servers, this technology ensures systems start up in a known good state.

Additional Server Options

In addition to the hardware component upgrades, we offer a several premium server options on monthly bare metal servers for your most demanding workloads. Supercharge your compute-intensive application with GPUs, maximize your storage volume with more than a dozen hard drives, or cut down on inter-server latency by provisioning your servers in the same physical rack. You want it; we've got it.

Dedicated Rack

Physically locate multiple servers in the same physical rack. Data transfer between servers in a dedicated rack environment is almost instantaneous, so you can minimize your inter-server network latency.

Included Features and Services

All bare metal servers come with a comprehensive set of features and services. With these features included at no additional cost, you can accelerate deployment and optimize your total cost of operations.